We awoke early to embark on what the Lonely Planet described as "Cambodia's most magical boat ride!" Armed with our cleverly purchased peanut butter and baguettes we wasted time waiting for the bus doing our Asian morning stretches. It's quite common for the bus drivers to hop off the bus at rest breaks and launch into violent side swinging stretches. Dan has developed quite the talent for it. After successfully trapping a few nerves we got onto our minibus to ma...

A new country, Cambodia, our final destination for Asia.  Cambodia is quite a difficult country to travel, as it's an awkward shape, meaning you often have to travel back to the capital Phnom Penh in order to move on. It's the central point for travel. We had decided that as we were to spend some time in the capital at the end of our trip buying clothes for New Zealand we would simply pass through and book a bus straight to Siem Reap, the true heart of Cambodia...

Mui Ne and Saigon, Where do I even start?  I've been sitting here writing and rewriting this blog but there are no words to describe the madness of this week. We had the absolute time of our lives! I'll try and find a few .... This was the week when ... We met the most fantastic people, Dan got drunk and had a sex change, we had an amazing all day pool party, Aron fell off an ostrich, Mel was the perfect French man always smoking and drinking, I fell over and ...

Whilst Ninh Binh is only two hours from Hanoi we were booked onto a night bus as it was to continue on to Hue, another city in Vietnam. It was our first experience of the Vietnamese night buses and it was bizzare. The only thing I can liken them to is the knight bus from Harry Potter. They're ordinary coaches with inbuilt bunk beds! It was quite the experience. They're a bit coffin like, as each person is allocated a bed which is more like a box that you clamber ...

As I mentioned in one of my last blogs Dan and I visited the Cope Centre (Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise centre) whilst we were in Vientiane and I wanted to talk a little bit about the fantastic work that the people at the centre do. A it's core Cope is a health centre that aides the many people disabled by the unexploded bombs and mines left over from the extensive secret bombing of Laos undertaken by the US during the Vietnam war. The informe...